About the Talk

Unlock your Education Data with the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
Please join us for a free half day workshop where we will take off the covers for the next release of SQL Server and Business Intelligence. You will learn from the experts how to build and deploy impactful analytic and reporting solutions that are simple to use and consume to drive insight and understanding.
Opening Session (45 min): For CIO’s, IT Management, and IT professionals. We will take a look at the new key features of SQL Server ‘Denali’ for High Availability, Security and Compliance, Performance, and the new BI capabilities including “Project Crescent” to WOW your end users with beautiful easy to use reports.
BI Workshop (3 hours): For IT professionals, DBA’s, and Developers. In this workshop you will learn how to build a data warehouse on the Microsoft BI Platform. We will cover design and modeling, ETL with Integration Services, Multi-Dimensional Cubes for slicing and dicing data in Analysis Services, enriching your data with key performance indicators for dashboards, and delivering eye-popping reports with ‘project crescent’ and reporting services.